ADI Design Museum – Milano, piazza Compasso d’Oro 1 – OPENING: April 5th, H 6 pm
April will star Bartoli Design not just during the design week, at the Salone del Mobile.Milano, but also at the ‘ADI Design Museum’ in Milano, from April 5 to 28, in the “FEELING GOOD – Caimi design for the future” exhibition on design reformism of an icon of Made in Italy between science, design, art and enterprise, 75 years after its foundation.
A non-celebratory, rather a narrative show of the working method which is the real DNA of Caimi.
The exhibit is curated by Aldo Colonnetti and Valentina Fisichella and designed by Matteo Vercelloni while the multimedia project and live performance is by Ex Anima.
The Studio will display a set of drawings, specifically made for that occasion, representing the innovative Integral acoustic panels – born with a long, careful design and experimentation process and featuring essential and balanced shapes.
Integral was conceived – in its name, too – as a multifunctional system where the panels not only work as sound-absorbing tools but also contributing to better overall acoustic, lighting and comfort performances inside architectural spaces.
Defined by a spherical cap (cm 80 and 120 diameter) gracefully combining aesthetics and function along with its primary acoustic comfort function, Integral thus becomes a lighting appliance as well, housing hidden LEDs, in its back, that emit a soft glow completing the décor.
All according to a sustainability focus, with 100% recyclable materials.
As Anna and Paolo Bartoli say: “the inspiration from which the project and the sketches on display are born, comes from some images of a solar eclipse which suggested the iconic and concise semicircular shape and the crescent moon as a formal reference for the concave panel section, perfectly fitting to the functional and performance needs. The very idea of the panel simultaneously meeting different functions – as sound absorption and light-diffusion – was born just seeing the solar eclipse and envisaging we could put the hemispheric panels alongside walls to diffuse light”.
